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Sprint slapped with a penalty of $70.1 million (California, US)

  • July 30th, 2008
  • 7:20 am

Sprint, nation’s third carrier, has been slapped with a penalty of $70.1 million, by a California judge. This is a tentative penality for early termination fees charged to subscribers throughout the state, AP reports. The company was ordered to pay $18.3 million to customers who sued over the fees and credit $54.8 million to subscribers that were charged the fee, but never paid.

The issue of ETFs has made its way into federal and state courthouses around the country and the Federal Communications Commission is weighing options it could impose on carriers to regulate the fees and thereby shield them from more class-action lawsuits at the state level. T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon have all committed to reducing the fees on a pro-rated basis over the life of a contract and Sprint said it plans to follow suit next year. The FCC is expected to make a similar industry-wide decision in August.

   

Verve wireless and McClatchy offers to design newspaper websites for mobile phones (US)

  • July 28th, 2008
  • 1:16 pm

To boost the local paper readership, Newspaper websites are designed for mobile phones. Verve wireless that provides mobile editions of The Associated Press and the McClatchy Company papers is offering the technology for this.

Art Howe, Verve’s chief executive, said that local news content would always be appealing to people, even if it isn’t in print format. However, to be more functional, mobile paper sites “cannot be Internet lite.”

US currently has 95 million mobile Internet Subscribers and number of people access the web from their phones nearly doubled to 40 million since 2006.